Greek Reporter

Homer’s Greek Was Never a Spoken Language, Yet It Lives on in Modern Greek

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...
Earth.com

The language of mollusks: Why 72% of names come from Ancient Greek

Study uncovers scientific naming origins behind mollusk names, with Ancient Greek dominating taxonomy for centuries ...
Discover Magazine

It Was Rare, But Ancient People Sometimes Needed to Translate Languages — Here's How

We don’t know how language first began. The first writing didn’t occur until around 3200 B.C.E., and we know that spoken language came before that. Some experts contend that it started with hand ...
Portland Press Herald

Archaeologists find ancient tomb, evidence of Greek language in Pompeii

ROME — Archaeologists in the ancient city of Pompeii have discovered a remarkably well-preserved skeleton during excavations of a tomb that also shed light on the cultural life of the city before it ...
The New Yorker

An Instant Classic About Learning Ancient Greek

When Andrea Marcolongo’s book “La Lingua Geniale,” subtitled “9 ragioni per amare il greco” (“Nine Reasons to Love Greek”), came out in 2016, I bought it, in Italian, and took it with me to Greece. I ...
Greek Reporter

The Longest Greek Word Is Actually an Ancient Recipe

At first glance, it looks like someone enjoyed taking the spaces out of a sentence; in reality, it's a single word by ...
Brandeis University

Brandeis Students Merge Language Learning with STEM in a Unique Hands-On Project

Brandeis undergraduate students in Beginning Ancient Greek (GRK 10a) are taking their language studies beyond the classroom, applying their knowledge in creative and immersive ways in Assistant ...